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On taking the Persian throne, Darius I moves to quell revolts in virtually every quarter of the empire. He records his victory in a monumental trilingual cuneiform inscription on a cliff face at Behistun overlooking the highway from Babylon to Ecbatana. In an effort to determine whether the extremities of the empire can be linked together with the center, Darius launches a thirty-month-long expedition from the Indus to the Nile. In the west, Darius moves into Thrace in Europe to prevent Scythian nomads from crossing the Danube. A revolt of the Ionian city-states in western Anatolia, instigated by the Athenians, is met with Darius's full-scale invasion of Greece, which is finally halted at Marathon.
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